The Shirtless Wonder

I promise that whenever Cannon leaves the house, he is wearing a shirt and shoes.  But when we're just hangin' out in the backyard, both are optional... the shirt because he refuses to wear a bib and ruins shirts while eating, and the shoes because well, who needs 'em?  I will tell you, though, that today is our first day of an experiment to see whether wearing shoes will encourage him to wander out into the grass.  Until now "playing in the backyard" has actually meant "walking endlessly up and down the sidewalk between the garage and the house", which is fine since walking is his new favorite hobby, but we're just trying to sway him into a new little adventure here:  the wonderful world of grass!  His other favorite things:  anything with a lid, reading books (he has definite favorites and will bring the ones he wants to the reader) , spatulas, forks (only when he is safe in his high chair, although he regularly protests that decision), playing peek-a-boo, and giving high fives (anytime, but most curiously when someone says, "say bye-bye") .  

P.S.  Sorry for the blur on some of these photos... our camera is being weird.  Oh, and Cannon was carrying on a pretty constant conversation while I was taking these--can you tell?    :)

Where's Cannon?

Do you see him in this picture?

The answer, though, is that he's everywhere!  Last week he decided to make walking his main mode of transportation, and he's not lookin' back!  He pushes his rocket ship from the garage, along the sidewalk to the house, up a step and into the kitchen, through the dining room and living room to the front of the house... and then turns and goes the other way.  He occasionally gets frustrated with the two small steps in there, but he's learning about lifting.  And he learned really quickly how to steer--there were soem frustrations there, too.  And this boy is not shy about telling everyone when he's mad or frustrated.  Timothy put him in a bucket the other day too, which Cannon did not think was very funny.  :)